Posted on 12/17/2001 12:50:06 PM PST by StoneColdGOP
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:48 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In a first for the United States, a major record company plans Tuesday to release a CD that's been encrypted to stop digital copying.
Universal Music Group's CD--"More Fast and Furious," a movie soundtrack aimed at a young male audience--will be protected by anti-piracy software from an Israeli company, Midbar Tech Ltd.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Interesting story that. The album was copy protected everywhere but Australia, where 2000 discs were distributed sans protection. Even before the album had been released in the US some Aussie had uploaded the whole thing to an MP3 newsgroup and it spread across the world.
IIRC, it's because that different sovereign nations have different copyright laws. (So that Chinese DVD player not only funds the People's Liberation Army, it promotes the globalist New World Order!)
Different movies have different theatrical release dates in different countries (in part, I suspect, to allow many of the thousands of prints produced for a normal U.S. release to be reused elsewhere once the movie isn't playing on so many screens here). If it takes a few months for a movie to make it to a certain country and, by the time it does so, the DVD is already available odds are extremely good that the DVD is going to undermine movie ticket sales.
What's particularly ironic is that if I record a stretch of "copy protected" video on my VCR I can play it back without the waviness. Hope someone got a zillion bucks for that brilliant idea...
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